Well with working on the layout being hard for me at the moment I have been acquiring the bits to start work on conversion kit produced by Etched Pixels for converting a class 159 DMU into a class 323 EMU. Aside from a few bits of kit like paint and filler I am ready to get started on this project, plus with it being a sit down job then it might not be so bad for me at the moment.

Indeed this is a total break from the SNCF layout I have been constructing for some time now, however I have always had aspirations to build a modern era British layout based in the Midlands.

In the above there are the following items:

Graham Farish class 159 - Donor unit for the conversion.

Brass front ends conversion kit - 2 kits actually, I will probably make some sort of mistake.

Graham Farish class 91 body shell - Donor pantograph

Electra Railway Graphics vinyl overlays - excellent detail, should look good on the side of the unit.

I have no idea how quickly I will get around to completing this project but I would like to think that it would be quicker than some of my other (still finished) micro projects.